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WEAVER'S DAUGHTER

User Review - Kirkus

This charming and involving historical novel brings readers to the Southwest Territory (now Tennessee) in 1792. The Bakers live with an inescapable fear: their ten-year old daughter, Lizzy, suffers ...Read full review

LibraryThing Review

User Review - FranCaroll - LibraryThing

Ten year old Lizzie Baker loves her family life pioneering their farm in the Southwest Territory. She faces a horrible fact: Lizzie has a sickness that we now call "asthma", and the doctor does not ...Read full review

About the author (2002)

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley is the author of Energy Makes Things Happen and Pop!, an Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children, in the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science series. She has a degree in chemistry from Smith College and lives with her husband and two children in Bristol, Tennessee.